Too many concurrent issue-list requests for this actor/clien

Error message

Too many concurrent issue-list requests for this actor/client

What it means

429 from the issue-list request coordinator: too many identical in-flight list requests for the same actor/client key; the response is retried after the supplied Retry-After seconds instead of duplicating work.

Source

Thrown at server/src/routes/issues.ts:6333

        companyId: issue.companyId,
        issueId: issue.id,
        executionWorkspaceId: issue.executionWorkspaceId ?? null,
        failureReason: `issue_terminal_${issue.status}`,
      });
    } catch (err) {
      logger.warn(
        { err, issueId: issue.id, executionWorkspaceId: issue.executionWorkspaceId ?? null },
        "failed to destroy reusable sandbox leases for terminal issue",
      );
    }
  }

  async function resolveIssueRouteId(rawId: string): Promise<string> {
    const identifier = normalizeIssueReferenceIdentifier(rawId);
    if (identifier) {
      const issue = await svc.getByIdentifier(identifier);
      if (issue) {
        return issue.id;
      }
    }
    return rawId;
  }

  async function resolveIssueProjectAndGoal(issue: {
    companyId: string;
    projectId: string | null;
    goalId: string | null;
  }) {
    const projectPromise = issue.projectId ? projectsSvc.getById(issue.projectId) : Promise.resolve(null);
    const directGoalPromise = issue.goalId ? goalsSvc.getById(issue.goalId) : Promise.resolve(null);
    const [project, directGoal] = await Promise.all([projectPromise, directGoalPromise]);

    if (directGoal) {
      return { project, goal: directGoal };
    }

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Solutions

Back off and retry after a delay; reduce request concurrency or frequency for this actor/client.

Defensive patterns

Strategy: retry

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at server/src/routes/issues.ts:6027 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of paperclipai/paperclip@01ad858492 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/26f58e3371142919. Report an issue: GitHub.